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The history of the Jews
Gotthard Deutsch
Two millennia of survival, dispersal, and intellectual renewal unfold through the record of a people perpetually remaking their world amid exile and emancipation.
The Hole in the Wall
Arthur Morrison
A young boy steps into the shadowed taverns of the London Docks, where his grandfather keeps a dark secret among thieves, murderers, and lost fortunes.
The House Under the Sea: A Romance
Max Pemberton
A captain sails to a forbidding Pacific island to save his former mistress, only to discover her trapped in a nightmare of villainy, natural horror, and hidden undersea strongholds.
The Infidel
Robert Montgomery Bird
A young Castilian soldier finds himself caught between the ruthless ambitions of Hernan Cortes and the desperate resistance of the Aztec empire, forced to navigate betrayal, imprisonment, and forbidden alliances in a divided land.
The Iron Boys on the Ore Boats
James R. Mears
Thrown into an ore ship’s dark hold, two ambitious young industrial inspectors battle treacherous waters, wild hazards, and rivalries to master the shipping trade of the Great Lakes.
The Land of Deepening Shadow: Germany-at-War
D. Thomas (Daniel Thomas) Curtin
A chilling, eye-opening journey behind enemy lines reveals a nation transformed by totalitarian control, systematic indoctrination, and the grinding, desperate realities of total war.
The life savers of Cape Cod
J. W. (John Wilfred) Dalton
A harrowing chronicle of maritime peril, J. W. Dalton’s 1902 history documents the perilous stretches of Massachusetts sand and the disciplined, fearless surfmen who risked their lives to rescue shipwrecked sailors from the Atlantic’s deadliest winter gales.
The Lily and the Totem
William Gilmore Simms
A dream of freedom in the New World dissolves into mutiny, massacre, and a terrible, cold revenge.
The long road of woman's memory
Jane Addams
A thoughtful reflection on how memory shapes the lives of women, this collection explores how the stories we tell ourselves—and the myths we inherit—help us navigate grief, social injustice, and the pressures of modern life.
The Lost Road
Richard Harding Davis
A war correspondent dies while the greatest conflict of his era remains unfinished, leaving behind stories of soldiers, idealists, schemers, and reluctant fugitives bound by duty, pride, and love.
The Martian Cabal
Roman Frederick Starzl
A corrupt oligarchy brews a war between Earth and Mars to consolidate power, while an Earth police sergeant and a displaced Martian princess navigate torture, escape, and political upheaval across the red planet.
The Masked Bridal
Sheldon, Georgie, Mrs.
A young copyist agrees to play the bride in a private theatrical performance, only to discover her fake marriage was real and her new life a web of deceit.
The Mentor: Egypt, the Land of Mystery, Serial No. 42
Dwight L. (Dwight Lathrop) Elmendorf
The life-giving waters of the Nile flow through a landscape where ancient stone monuments whisper from the distant past and modern engineering reclaims the fertile desert.
The Palace in the Garden
Mrs. Molesworth
When three lonely children stumble upon a secret, forgotten wing of a neighboring estate, their quiet summer transforms into a world of hidden pasts and unexpected joy.
The Pearl Box: Containing One Hundred Beautiful Stories for Young People
Anonymous
Grief, poverty, and childhood's fragile moments meet under the watchful eye of an unyielding moral order.
The Real Dope
Ring Lardner
An thick-headed American pitcher writes home to his midwestern buddy from the mud, drafty transport ships, and trenches of France during the First World War.
The Red Man's Revenge: A Tale of The Red River Flood
R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
An stubborn father's refusal to bless his daughter's marriage sets off a chain of frontier trials, tested to the limit when a cataclysmic flood overwhelms the settlement.
The Revenge: A Tragedy
Edward Young
A captive prince plots the destruction of the Spanish general who enslaved him, weaponizing jealousy to turn a hero against his bride and his truest friend.
The Runaway Skyscraper
Murray Leinster
A New York office building falls out of its own era, landing two thousand confused commuters straight into pre-Columbian wilderness.
The secret of the caves
Franklin W. Dixon
A summer afternoon on the bay turns into a desperate search along treacherous coastal cliffs when two teenage brothers pull a frantic woman from the water and inherit a missing-persons case that local authorities have abandoned.
The Steam Fire Engine and the Old-time Fire Bell
Anonymous
Flames once leveled American cities while citizens scrambled with buckets, but the invention of the steam fire engine transformed civic defense into a thrilling, mechanical spectacle.
The Story of an Ostrich: An Allegory and Humorous Satire in Rhyme
I. J. Potter
A self-absorbed ostrich attempts to destroy his own feet after mistaking them for alien parasites.
The Story of Live Dolls
Josephine Scribner Gates
A quiet town turns magical when a miniature gilded carriage brings news that every doll will awaken tomorrow.
The story of Santa Klaus
William S. Walsh
Centuries of lore, pagan ritual, and global tradition merge into the single figure who fills stockings on Christmas Eve.
The Sword of Gideon
John Bloundelle-Burton
A cashiered officer rides into the Spanish Netherlands under a dead man’s name to rescue a young heiress, only to find that every step toward her drags them both deeper into the machinery of war.
The triumph of the cross
Girolamo Savonarola
A solitary faith builds its case not on emotional fervor, but on the cold, irresistible weight of systematic reason.
The White Ladies of Worcester: A Romance of the Twelfth Century
Florence L. (Florence Louisa) Barclay
A twelfth-century prioress believes her early vows of love were broken by death, but the knight she once betrothed returns from the Crusades to claim her from behind convent walls.
Three Centuries of a City Library: an Historical and Descriptive Account of the Norwich Public Library Established in 1608 and the present Public Library opened in 1857
Geo. A. (George Arthur) Stephen
A meticulous record of civic stewardship, this history traces three centuries of municipal reading in Norwich, where local determination transformed a modest seventeenth-century room of divinity into a modern, rate-supported library.
Three Sides of Paradise Green
Augusta Huiell Seaman
A persistent village rumor, a misplaced journal, and a strange French visitor turn three young neighbors into historical detectives in quiet, early twentieth-century New England.
Tracked by Wireless
William Le Queux
A young radio engineer uses his revolutionary listening apparatus to unmask a globe-trotting criminal syndicate step by step across interwar Europe.
Trees, Shown to the Children
C. E. Smith
A field guide transformed into a gentle conversation, this work turns the quiet trees of countryside and common into living, familiar neighbors.
Tropical Africa
Henry Drummond
Dense forests, quiet lakes, and a continent in transition unfold through the eyes of a Victorian scientist who observes both the wonders of natural adaptation and the devastation of the Arab slave trade with quiet, measured intensity.
U.S. Copyright Renewals: Artwork 1960-1964: Catalog of Copyright Entries
Library of Congress. Copyright Office
A meticulous administrative registry of mid-century visual culture becomes, in aggregate, an accidental census of American imagination and commercial design.
Under the dragon flag
James Allan
Swept into a foreign conflict by a ruined fortune, a young Englishman finds himself marooned along the bloody coastline of East Asia.
Under Wellington's Command: A Tale of the Peninsular War
G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
Amid the artillery smoke and fractured alliances of the Peninsular War, a resourceful young Irish officer leads a regiment of irregulars through daring escapes, bloody sieges, and the chaos of Napoleonic Spain.
Veronese
François Crastre
A luminous city finds its ultimate champion in an artist who transforms light, canvas, and theatrical splendor into a boundless celebration of human vitality.
Whittaker & Co.'s List of Classical, Educational and Technical Works. July 1889
Whittaker & Co.
This comprehensive 1889 catalog serves as a vital historical lens, mapping the intellectual and technical landscape of late Victorian education, language, and industrial ambition.
Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume 02
Unknown
A spirited tapestry of Scottish life, where desperate rievers, pious Covenanters, and star-crossed lovers navigate a world governed by moonlight raids, rough justice, and capricious fate.
Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume 23
Unknown
A man searches a riverbed for three weeks for his drowned wife, only to find she has fled with his money; a grieving woman dies in an armchair, her infant nursing at a bloody breast, while her husband returns from a lost battle.
Winding Paths
Gertrude Page
A soul in turmoil searches for a straight path through the world, only to learn that life moves forward across winding ways.
"1914"
John Oxenham
An comfortable English suburb watches its young men scatter into the storm of August 1914, discovering that the tidy, optimistic world they built cannot protect them from the tragedy unfolding across Europe.
A Book o' Nine Tales
Arlo Bates
This collection of nine short stories, interspersed with brief, whimsical interludes, explores the intersection of the mundane and the mysterious in late 19th-century life. With a sharp eye for social artifice and a penchant for the uncanny, the narratives navigate the delicate boundary between a well-ordered…
A brief Journal of what passed in the City of Marseilles, while it was afflicted with the Plague, in the Year 1720
Pichatty de Croislainte
A daily record of a city’s collapse and survival, this journal tracks Marseilles as it faces the catastrophic outbreak of the bubonic plague in 1720.
A Butterfly on the Wheel: A Novel
Guy Thorne
When a high-society romance founders under the glare of publicity, a single night's mischance threatens to destroy a young woman’s life before the court ever reaches a verdict.
A Comic History of the United States
Livingston Hopkins
A dryly irreverent chronicle parodies the grand narrative of American nation-building, transforming monumental historical milestones into a procession of absurd misunderstandings, petty squabbles, and outrageous tall tales.
A History of the Four Georges, Volume II
Justin McCarthy
A ruthless political machine defends its power while foreign wars and internal rebellions threaten to tear Great Britain apart.
A Middy in Command: A Tale of the Slave Squadron
Harry Collingwood
A young midshipman takes charge of a prize vessel in hostile waters, where a single miscalculation means mutiny, shipwreck, or a pirate's cage.
A Political Diary, 1828-1830, Volume II
Ellenborough, Edward Law, Earl of
A nation's cabinet room becomes a arena of quiet desperation as an empire struggles to hold its footing against domestic unrest and continental collapse.